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Were they entitled, or were they raised in a world with less individualism and more flexibility around seats in a flipping movie theater? Yes, I’m going to play devil’s advocate

Entitled boomer couple expects man to change movie theater seats with them because they bought the wrong ones: ‘Just mind bogglingly irritating because we are in a dark theater and this is disturbing other movie goers’

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Employee turns off his work phone during his PTO time, and you won't guess what his boss did! He said that he was being unprofessional by setting up that boundary, now he wonders if he needs a new job

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After coworker refuses to stop taking employee's office chair, employee forces him to stop by swapping the chair with a broken one: ‘He hasn’t touched it since’

Some people simply don't notice that someone couldn’t care less about their family member’s wedding. They only know they want to show the pictures they took, so they do it, and that’s about it. Not everyone knows how to have an interesting conversation.

Woman is taken aback when a lady starts showing her pictures of the wedding she was uninvited to: ‘All that time she was shoving the wedding photo album in my face saying "look, look at all the young people that were there!"’

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Girlfriend is tired of boyfriend being disorganized and untidy, so she blocks her card, causing a scene at a shop when he tried paying with it: 'The cashier became suspicious, and they were considering calling the police.'

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HOA and their shady tactics There is a pretty universal truth behind all this: goodwill and reasonableness often get you nowhere with institutions like the HOA. Apparently, a specific, cited, enforceable threat is the only thing that does.

‘I just served them with an $8,800 Small Claims lawsuit’: HOA tries to blame main sewer line root invasion on an ‘improper cleanout’ to avoid reimbursing the $1200 plumbing bill they owe

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Friend group goes out for birthday dinner, spends $340, wants to split it all evenly, and calls another friend ‘cheap’ for refusing to pay $57 when she only ordered $14 worth of food: ‘Money is tight at the moment’

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After a neighbor falsely claims ownership of a shared entrance and bolts a gate to his property, so he pays her back by ”accidentally” severing her TV cable on move-out day: ‘I “cut” ties with an awful neighbor'

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Employee gets reprimanded for ending their shift as soon as it ends, but nothing happens when other employees start their shift late every day: 'Am I wrong for thinking the real problem is the people who are always coming in late'.

Judging by what this employee said, I don’t see any reason why he thinks he is being monitored, but I see reasons to think he is overreacting. Frequent or recurring 1-on-1s are totally normal, and might be a part of ‘office culture ’.

Employee is alarmed due to coworker arranging a recurrent 1 on 1 meeting with him: ‘I feel uncomfortable like I'm being monitored because I did something wrong. Is this normal or is this weird?’

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Boss blocks employee from all workplace channels after receiving their resignation letter and notice, employee stops coming to work: ‘Too bad I'm a coward’

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Apparently, asking how much someone makes is the worst thing you can ask Honestly, I’ve never heard anything like this, and I was really surprised to see the comments under the post siding with the offended party

27-year-old man abruptly leaves friend’s birthday party when they ask him how much money he makes: ‘I wasnt enjoying myself anymore. Told the person next to me I was heading out, paid for my food at the front and left’

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COO replaces a professional employee with a less qualified friend of his, then cuts his salary, and finally fires him for trying to warn leadership about the mistake and speaking up

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Why would a sister behave like this? Younger sister eats leftover birthday cake from older sister in just 3 days without leaving any for her family: 'She eats my snacks, takes my clothes.'

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Manager denies 2 PTO requests, claiming the employees submitted them too late, employees refuse to work in response: ‘Consider it your resignation’

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Why would someone do something like that to their partner? Brother's new girlfriend took over the organization of the man's birthday and did it on the same day as his brother's, making him unable to attend.